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MrarORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, April 19, 1955 e . - - - DESTROYS BUSINESS DISTRICT A raging fire, whipped by winds, virtually de stroyed the business district of this small town before scores of firemen managed to bring it under control. The leaping flames destroyed an estimated nineteen buildings in a two-block area. No injuries were reported. Disappointed Banker Heads Formidable Rival Company San Francisco (U.R) The man who was disappointed in his dream of heading the Bank of America has created a formid able rival of banking within a few months. Frank L. Belgrano Jr.f dyn amic, tireless president and board chairman of vast Trans america corporation, directs a Black Market in Vaccine Reported Detroit (U.R) A black mar ket in Salk vaccine is in opera tion in Detroit, reliable sources said today. The sources, who asked that their names be withheld because they would be "caught in the middle" if they were revealed, said anyone with the right "con nection" could obtain at least a three shot supply of the vaccine "for a price." One source said the black mar ket Included distributors for pharmaceutical firms who pro duced the vaccine. He said the distributors "palmed off" slower moving items along with the vac cine. The informant said the distrib utors made the purchase of the less desirable products a condi tion of the availability of the vaccine. Producers of the vaccine said they "doubted" that a black market could exist because sup plies to commercial channels were too small but the sources said a number of shipments have been received by drug stores. "There are barrels of it now available and in three weeks it will be running out of our ears,' one source said. Damages Sought For Confinement Bend (U.R) One of the largest damage actions ever brought in Deschutes county was filed in local Circuit Court yes terday by George Hamilton Gib son. Named as defendants in the ac tion for damages totaling $405, 000 were Dr. Max W. Heming way, Dr. Richard C. Robinson, County Judge C. L. Allen, City Youth Counselor George J. Turn er and Dr. Donald Wair of the Eastern Oregon hospital at Pen dleton. Gibson charges the defendants conspired to have him forcibly removed from Bend and commit ted to the Pendleton hospital in August, 1952. He further charges he was committed to the mental hospital without a hearing "of any sort" and was held without "due process of law." Gibson also charges that the defendants filed with the county court "false affidavits" regard ing his committal and "a false report of an examination alleg ing the plaintiff was insane." The complaint states that Gib son was forcibly handcuffed and bodily carried from his home and confined at the Pendleton hos pital for 90 days. VFW Commander Urges Stand Against Commies St. Helens flJ.R) Merton B Tice, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, urged Americans last night to take a stand against Communism through positive action and spoke against the negative "againstism" philosophy in this country. Tice said the only way to meet Communism is on its own grounds. "Show them through practi cal Americanism the superior philosophy," he said. "They can't stand comparison," fledgling banking empire that already has total assets of $800, 000,000, one-tenth that of Bank of America. Ironically. Belgrano built the new state-wide banking system, known as First Western Bank & Trust Co.. on the solid financial structure of Transamerica, brain child of A. P. Giannini and once controlling-interest holder in came oi America. It was less than two years ago in March. 1953 that the Fed eral Reserve Board climaxed five years of anti-trust suits against Transamerica bv ordering it to sea many of its banking inter ests. . Three months later Belwano was in the driver's seat at Trans- america's unDretentious offices at 4 Columbus avenue, and the holding company was on its wav to acquiring its. present total of 03 banks throughout the state. When the deliberate-sDeakins Belgrano, a former national com mander of the American. Leffion. returned to San Francisco and infused new life into Trarisi america, it was no shqck to the city's business and financial circles. The alert, dapper man nad been doing big jobs well tor years. Born May 18." 1895. In San Francisco, Belgrano was called a born banker" bv his mother early in life. He spurned his parents' offer to send him to col lege, saying he preferred to work. He also refused the offer of a job by his father, president of the Banco Popolare Fugazi on North Beach, and instead went to work enveloping circulars for the Bank of California. He later moved to the First National Bank of San Francisco before enlisting in the Army as a private in 1917. He rose to ser geant before being commissioned lieutenant and was assigned to the 33rd Field Artillery. After his release from the service, he took a position in the Fugazi bank and started simul taneous marches up the ladder of business success and the hier archy of the American Legion. His only hobby was the Legion; he devoted all his time to it, he once said. As national commander in 1934, Belgrano spearheaded the drive for veterans' bonus legis lation. His economically persuas ive arguments with President Roosevelt on the issue were cred ited with pushing through bonus provisions affecting a million and a half veterans of World War I. . He served as a Bank of Amer ica vice-president and president of the Central Bank of Oakland (one of the key banks in the new chain) before going to Portland, Ore., in 1947 to spur the growth of the First National Bank of Portland. Then last July, in a series of adroit maneuvers, he merged the Transamerica - controlled Central Bank of Oakland with the San Francisco Bank. Later the San Francisco Bank, too, came under Transamerica. The merged banks' name was changed to First Western Bank and Trust Co., and a series of mergers joined them with smal ler Transamerica - controlled banks throughout the state. What's more, on Montgomery Street they're saying this is just the beginning. Base Ohio Town Center For Specialty Advertising Coshocton, O. (U.R) If there's an advertising calendar, ashtray, blotter , or any other useful item with a company name on it in the house, the chances are good that it came from here. This is the nation's center for advertising give - aways, or "specialty advertising," as it' is called in the ..trade. , Eight com panies actually do their manu facturing here, while at least three others have representa tives stationed here. The -most obvious item is the calendar, ranging from . the na ture and pin-up girl types to expensive-looking little leather desk holders. r y " Advertising give-aways are 68 years old. The original item was a canvas school bag with an ad printed on the side. Similar bags can still be seen in some places. Jasper F. Meek,-editor and publisher of the weekly Coshoc ton Age, is usually credited with starting things off. :t Schoolboy Helps He bought the Age from Joseph Medill, who went to Chi cago and there founded the Trib une. Like most small-town printers, Meek also did job work but in that community there was little to be done. One day he saw a schoolboy drop his books on the ground. He helped pick them up, and with them picked up the idea of a bag a bag with the name of a store on it. A shoe dealer bought his idea radical for the time and or dered some bags. Other mer chants did the same for horse blankets the kind used to keep off summer flies. The idea took off fast from there. By the beginning of the century, Coshocton was already known in advertising circles. To day it is a major business. The idea is that a person with a use ful item will have the advertise ment constantly before him. He is also likely to feel some grati tude to the company for giving it to him for nothing. Besides comparatively cheap items, such as blotters and cal endars, Coshocton firms turn out "class" advertising items such as leather 'billfolds and desk sets, barometers, clocks and even cigaret lighters. Mount Angel Abbot Injured by Employee Portland (U.R) Right Rev. Thomas Meier, abbot of Mount Angel abbey, was hospitalized here yesterday after suffering a head injury police said was incurred when he was struck by a partime lay employee. Police in Salem had under arrest Constantine Paulus, who had been employed at the abbey as a butcher. They said Father Meier was struck after remon strating Paulus for killing a dog of which the abbot was fond. Hospital attendants said the injury was not serious. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Coed Dies on Yosemite Hike Yosemite National Park, Calif. (U.R) A 19-year-old Stanford University coed died of exhaus tion and exposure yesterday dur ing a mountain climbing expe dition with twp companions. The girl, Anne R. Pottinger, daughter of Marine Col. William K. Pottinger, Cherry Point, N.C., died while she and another young woman huddled on a ledge under an overhanging rock while their male companion went to get help from forest rangers. Park authorities said Miss Pot tinger, Irene A. Beardsley, 19, another Stanford student, and Jack Weicker, San Francisco, set out Sunday to scale the park's famed cathedral spires. Late in the afternoon, he said, Miss. Pottinger complained of being exhausted, so he left the two young women on a ledge and hurried back to the valley for help, arriving there about 11 p.m. Weicker and a party of Park Rangers arrived back at the ledge at about 1 a.m. yesterday only to find that the girl had died shortly before their arrival. Physcians said the young girl student apparently died of shock brought on by exhaustion and exposure. Miss Beardsley was unharmed by the experience. Some automotive air condi tioning systems are no larger than a football, yet they can pro duce cool air equaj to that of 24 household refrigerators. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. ' 'I'lM't mm II l LMMJiiMMqyiu UMI.. ll lBlWl..llirWW.i.tMtii)nulii 1 $3 ' I Great Britain consumes 17 per and Sweden in turn is Britain's foremost export market. NINE POUNDS of pearls cached in ancient jug are being in spected by Dr. Joseph M. Cruxent, director, Natural Sciences Museum, Caracas, Venezuela, who found them in ruins of Nueva Cadiz, destroyed In 1534 by hurricane. (International) French Airliner 20 Hours Overdue Douala, French West Africa (U.R) A four-engine French air liner with 12 persons aboard was almost 20 hours overdue and was feared t o have gone down at sea today. The plane disappeared last night and six search planes were dispatched to look for it. They were unsuccessful, but officials here refused to give up hope that the missing craft would be found. The plane carried 10 passen gers and two crew members. SOC Students Plan Visit to Legislature Ashland Political science students of Southern Oregon college, and their professor, Dr. Marshall Woodell, will visit the Oregon state legislature on April 21 and 22. On Thursday the students will attend committee meetings in the evening. On Friday they will at tend house and senate sessions. The purpose of the visit, Dr. Woodell said, is to observe first hand the legislative, process. Some 20 or 25 persons will be traveling in the group. The TJ. S. consumes about 8, 000,000 tons of sugar annually. Of all the crop production in the United States about one eighth depends either entirely or in part on irrigation. Formosa is only 90 miles dis tant from the China mainland. DONALD W. RUBLE Maico-Trained Hearing Aid Technician MEET THE MAN WHO CAN HELP YOU HEAR SEE HIM AT THE JACKSON HOTEL MEDFORD, OREGON 10 A.M.-5:30 P.M. 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